AltWeeklies Wire
Station Losesnew
Most Californians now realize that we were hoodwinked when we amended the state constitution a few years back to allow impoverished Indian tribes to run card games, craps and slot machines on their balkanized reservations.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-05-2006 |
Commentary
The Bubblenew
The Capitol is teeming with flint-eyed recent college grads looking to make money, get laid and suck up some political power -- not necessarily in that order.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
08-14-2006 |
Commentary
The Natural Neuroticnew
Everybody knows that summer is camping time, but from personal experience, I seriously suggest that you take certain precautions.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
08-07-2006 |
Commentary
Perfect Dealnew
The litany of war crimes we collectively commit grows each day that we continue to occupy the Middle East and beyond, but one place name stands out as particularly repellant to the people of the world: the interrogation complex at Guantanamo Bay.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
07-24-2006 |
Commentary
Schmooze Festnew
At a cocktail party for River Rock Casino, CEO Shawn Smyth worked the crowd.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-26-2006 |
Commentary
The Agendanew
Antonia Juhasz's The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time outlines how the administration is implementing an economic agenda using military force to remake Iraq.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-19-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: war in iraq, neoconservatives
Baby Killersnew
Our soldiers have become baby killers, not figuratively but literally, and government spokespeople downplay despicable murders as "overzealous" reaction to the death of a Marine.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-09-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: war in iraq, haditha
Discipline Nownew
Virtually killing independent preschools in California, Rob Reiner's Proposition 82 would institutionalize a system for manufacturing English-only constrained consumers and angry soldiers.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-02-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: 2006elect
Common Sensenew
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey was one of the first members of Congress to actively oppose the invasion of Iraq and the Patriot Act -- today, her forthright stands have been vindicated by a sea change in public opinion.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
05-26-2006 |
Commentary
Wrong Party?new
It appears that by running for the Democrats, Joe Nation has entered the wrong primary.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
05-15-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: 2006elect
Viva Roseland!new
Bush himself cannot call for criminalizing immigrants because many of his corporate backers rely on cheap immigrant labor to boost profits -- so his Congressional storm troopers are doing it.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
04-20-2006 |
Commentary
Political Spectaclenew
Guy Debord is alive and well in California's assembly elections.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
04-20-2006 |
Commentary
Pale Ridernew
Not only have the counterinsurgency techniques from Vietnam been reborn in the Middle East, they are being globalized.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
03-31-2006 |
Commentary
War Gamesnew
In the end, Bush's enemies will probably be forced to cooperatively arm themselves with nuclear bombs so as to cooperatively deter us from deterring them.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
03-16-2006 |
Commentary
Wake-Up Callnew
As our country runs amok, the people sleep, hoping against hope that the government isn't tapping into their dreams.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
03-10-2006 |
Commentary
